This page
shows some of the draft covers that Will Eisner did for
some of The Spirit reprints. The finished cover appears
on the left, followed by the draft image on the right.

With thanks to
Eric Swainsbury for providing the draft images on this
page.

Warren
Spirit #10

As
can be seen above, the draft image (which was taken from
the first story reprinted in the issue, "Heat"
from 15 July, 1951) was not used for the final cover
image which was by Eisner and Ken Kelly.

Kitchen Sink
#36

The
image above and the ones shown below are from the post
war Spirit reprint series published by Kitchen Sink. As
can be seen from the images above the drafts are much
closer to how the finished cover appears.

Kitchen Sink
#41

In the
example shown above, the draft cover is identical to the
finished cover with the exception of the pose of the
caveman which varies slightly.

Kitchen Sink
#59

As can be
seen from the example above, the draft is very close to
how the finished cover appears, with just a couple of
cosmetic changes.